Quotes About Comfort

When they arrived, we all sat around my small apartment, ate delicious Indian food, and talked and talked for hours. I was surprised by how calming it was to be around people who looked like me and who reminded me of where I was from.

which I would write on Sunday afternoons sitting cross-legged on my bedroom floor with no pants on.

I didn't want to be Regis or Kathie Lee, because their chairs were too high. I'm sorry, I'm supposed to sit like that for an hour? Too much blood rushing to my ankles. No, thanks.

Keep me safe, keep me from harm, keep me in your loving arms.

Getting married is a lot like getting into a tub of hot water. After you get used to it, it ain't so hot.

Para sentir placer necesitamos el no-confort. Se disfruta de comer cuando se siente hambre. A medida que nuestras sociedades son más y más confortables, es más y más difícil disfrutar. Por eso buscamos vacaciones de ese confort, para volver a sentir placer por comer arroz cocido, beber agua casi potable o abrigarse con un saco de dormir.

If he [Arthur, number thirteen] had to die, he decided he would die singing. And doing what he knew now was his destiny: to sing to the lonely comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

Sing to the lonely, comfort the frightened, and awaken the love in sleeping hearts

I went to the bedroom and lay on the floor, so as not to mess up the covers.

This person mourns the fact that she has ruined her one chance to be loved by everyone; as this person climbs into bed, the weight of this tragedy seems to bear down upon this person's chest. And it is a comforting weight, almost human in heft. This person sighs. This person's eyes begin to close, this person sleeps.

I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

I moved his hair out of his face. I put my hand under his nose and felt gentle, even breaths. I pressed my lips against his ear and whispered again, It's not your fault. Perhaps this was really the only thing I had ever wanted to say to anyone, and be told.

People tend to stick to their own size group because it's easier on the neck.

Art has no meaning if it's not an escape. If it's not born of a prisoner's despair. I can't respect any art that comforts and relieves, those novels and music and paintings designed to make your prison more bearable.

I am all for comfort, but does comfort mean loss of attractiveness or identity

In the mind, in the heart, I was always home. I always imagined, really, going back home.

Hrasta se kloni, pod bukvu se skloni.

All sufferers can find comfort in the solidarity of the Crucified; but only those who struggle against evil by following the example of the Crucified will discover him at their side. To claim the comfort of the Crucified while rejecting his way is to advocate not only cheap grace but a deceitful ideology.

A quarter past three," she exclaimed, catching sight of the bedside clock. "What a time to be drinking tea!" "Anytime," Harold told her, "is time to be drinking tea.

Life went on. No matter what happened, life went on, inexorably, callously, it might seem, to those in grief. But somehow, in this continuity, there were the seeds of comfort.

How many people had stood here, as she did now, puzzled, unhappy, numb with pain and perplexity? And how many had found comfort in the knowledge of the continuity of life, of being but one link in a long chain of human experience, in this old, old setting?

Life could never be quite as sweet again. A vital part of her had died, it seemed, with Arnold's going; a part which beauty, work or the love of friends could not replace. But from these sources came a measure of comfort for which she was humbly grateful. She learnt, at this time, the invaluable lesson of find happiness in little things, and by picking up small crumbs of comfort as she went about her daily work nursed her damaged spirit back to health.

When you're used to hearing purring and suddenly it's gone, it's hard to silence the blaring sound of sadness.

We all lose somebody we care about and want to find some comforting way of dealing with it, something that will give us a little closure, a little peace.